A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen Quote

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
- Henrik Ibsen Quote

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.
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Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
- Henrik Ibsen Quote

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
- Henrik Ibsen Quote

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen Quote

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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The devil is compromise.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
- Henrik Ibsen Quote

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
- Henrik Ibsen Quote

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen Quote

You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen Quote